STAFF PHOTO BY SUSAN POAG
House at 4810 Savoie Court in eastern new Orleans where two people were shot to death and five others injured late Friday, August 24, 2007. Crime tape still surrounded the home Saturday, August 25, 2007. Another male victim died Sunday.

A man who was shot during a brutal home invasion in eastern New Orleans on Aug. 24 has died, the Orleans Parish coroner's office said Sunday.

Boon Roopmoh, 48, is the third person to die as a result of the attack in the 4800 block of Savoie Court. He was one of seven people who were forced by two gunmen into a house in the Village de l'Est neighborhood where they were robbed and shot. They had been sitting under a carport.

Roopmoh died Saturday of complications from a gunshot wound to the head after more than a week at University Hospital, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released his identity. Roopmoh's wife lives in Laos, Gagliano said.

Two others, Kong "Connie" Kham Vongvilay, who lived in the house, and Wisan Inthamat, a visitor from Thailand, died at the home.

The massacre took place about 15 doors from the site of a double slaying less than two weeks before on Aug. 11, when Luong Nguyen and his wife, Anjelique Vu, were found shot to death in their home. Their 2-year-old son and month-old daughter were found unharmed.

The two multiple slayings on Savoie occurred in a bustling, mostly Vietnamese community.

In a third attack about two miles away, there was more bloodshed after a break-in.

Julio Benitez-Cruz of El Salvador was killed when he and two others were shot Aug. 22 when three gunmen entered a home occupied by six workers in the 4800 block of Nighthart Street. Police suspected burglary was the motive.

Police have obtained an arrest warrant for Anthony Martin, 27, in that case.

Because of the rash of killings there, Police Superintendent Warren Riley has temporarily assigned 36 additional officers to eastern New Orleans.